"I love a fawn with gentle white black eyes, * Whose walk the willow-wand with envy kills: Forbidding me he bids for rival-mine, * 'Tis Allah's grace who grants to whom He wills!"
And when he heard her chant these lines he ended his recitation of the chapter, and began also to sing and repeated the following couplet,
"My Sal á m to the Fawn in the garments concealed, * And to roses in gardens of cheek revealed."
The lady rose up when she heard this, her inclination for him redoubled and she lifted the curtain; and Ala al-Din, seeing her, recited these two couplets,
"She shineth forth, a moon, and bends, a willow wand, * And breathes out ambergris, and gazes, a gazelle. Meseems as if grief loved my heart and when from her * Estrangement I abide possession to it fell."[FN#59]
Thereupon
